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What’s New: October 2024

This month’s update extends the coverage of Black lives, adding biographies of four people of African or part-African descent in Britain and its empire, accompanied by a reference group article and seven new portrait likenesses.

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Campbell, Joanne Elizabeth (1964–2002), actress and singer

The actress and singer Joanne Campbell, born in Northampton to a Jamaican mother and Trinidadian father, made an early break into television drama in 1984, alternating with stage roles. In 1991, with six other Black actresses, she was a founder of the BiBi Crew production company. 

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OCTOBER 24, 2024

What’s New: October 2024

Welcome to the 115th update of the Oxford DNB, which adds biographies of four people of African or part-African descent in Britain and its empire, accompanied by a reference group article and seven new portrait likenesses. 

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

20th Anniversary of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

To celebrate the ODNB turning 20, we’re sharing thirty influential lives from the British Isles spanning nearly two millennia.

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

What’s New: September 2024

Welcome to the 114th update of the Oxford DNB, which marks the twentieth anniversary of the Dictionary’s first publication in September 2004.